Op do 08-01-2004, om 22:50 schreef Tore Anderson: > * Chris Waters > > > I've never heard anyone suggest any reason for disallowing TTYs > > *except* for running apt-get under cron/at. And running update under > > cron is a BAD IDEA(tm)! If something goes wrong, it leaves your > > system potentially unusable and inaccessible! If you must do > > something under cron's control, use 'apt-get -d', to download the > > packages, then do the actual install manually, under human control. > > I believe you are blowing the risk factor out of proportions. Sure, > severe breakage from upgrades happens occasionally, but I don't think > situations where an upgrade is unproblematic in interactive mode, > but damages the system badly in non-interactive mode, to be anything > but extremely rare. That's not what he says. When an upgrade is problematic, at least you immediately know about it when you do it interactively. Not so when you run it non-interactively; plus, it might make the system completely unreachable: if you upgrade ssh, it's stopped at preinst time. If the upgrade breaks, it might not be restarted. [...] -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Most people have two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason, and the real reason
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